In December 2006 the Rugby Museum Gallery was renamed the Jack Lucas Gallery, to commemorate the important contribution that Jack made to Archaeology in general, but particularly to the understanding of Tripontium's place in Roman Britain Until recently the members of RAS, under the direction of Jack Lucas, have been concentrating activities on thoroughly investigating the locality of Tripontium in order to record and publish the findings of the excavation As trustees of the valuable Tripontium Collection the secondary role of the Society is to safeguard, preserve and, where necessary, take steps to conserve all the artifacts from the site Jack was the Chairman of Rugby Archaeological Society and has been Site Director for the excavations of the Roman settlement Tripontium since 1966 Rugby Archaeological Society was founded in 1961 by a group of amateur archaeologists to excavate the site of the Roman town of Tripontium